Preparing For Worship: May 29th, 2011

Happy Memorial Day everyone!

Sorry I left you blogless last weekend; my wife and I took off early Friday morning for our 5th Anniversary weekend away in Sonoma wine country. It was a gorgeous weekend in a gorgeous place with my gorgeous wife. It's amazing that five years has gone by since we got married. We had just been married one year when I first got a call from a stranger named Pastor Todd asking if I wanted to come lead worship in a cafeteria!

This Sunday we honor the service of those in the military to protect our country's freedom. We have a cool video with a bunch of pictures that y'all submitted of yourselves or family members that are/have been in the service. It's gonna be sweet!

Check out the song picks for this week:

1) Here I Am To Worship
2) Once Again
3) Yes You Have
4) Eternal Praise
5) In Christ Alone

Preparing for Worship: May 15th, 2011

Hey everyone! Looking forward to a great weekend! Pray for the 40 or so guys that will be up at Forest Home Ojai on Retreat; the speaker is amazing, and I'm hoping for a time of strong relationship building.

For the rest of us, here's the songs you should practice as you prepare for Sunday morning. Also, if you weren't here last week for Mother's Day, you NEED to watch the video below that we made for the morning featuring some of our most brilliant Crossroads kids!

1) Come Thou Fount
2) Our God
3) We Will Remember
4) Be Thou My Vision
5) Marvelous Light

Preparing for Worship: May 8th, 2011

Hey Worship Blog Readers! You know that you are the coolest, hip, happening, with-it, cutting-edge, dedicated, people at Crossroads right? At least that's what Pastor Todd said... ;)

Sunday's comin'! I know you're looking forward to it as much as I am, so check out which songs we'll be singing for our corporate worship session:
1) All Creatures Of Our God And King
2) The Father's Love
3) Forever Reign
4) Revelation Song
5) Give Us Clean Hands

What are you doing with the MOM in your life this Sunday??

Preparing for Worship: May 1st, 2011

Hey guys! It's the week AFTER Easter! Let's continue the great things God did last week as we celebrated the resurrection of Christ from the dead. Are you ready to SING??? You're in for a fun morning as we tweak and re-tweak some familiar tunes...check out the list below and get pumped:

1) From The Inside Out
2) How Great Thou Art
3) Let Your Kingdom Come
4) You Alone Can Rescue
5) Jesus Messiah

See you Sunday!!

Preparing For Worship: April 24th, Easter Sunday!

¹What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? ²By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? ³Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.


Romans 6:1-4


Happy Easter weekend everyone! It all starts this afternoon at 4:00pm with the first of three Good Friday services. Consider joining us at 4:00, 5:30, or 7:00 this evening; it's one of our most favorite services of the whole year!


Then Sunday morning, the stone is rolled away and we rejoice that the grave is indeed empty! We'll have our three normal service times on Sunday, so make sure to invite a friend or neighbor. We'll have overflow space set up in our Student Ministries room at the North Campus so don't let space keep you from bringing people!


I also wanted to remind you of the free download of "Resurrection Songs" that I released last year at this time. It's four tunes all centered on Christ rising from the dead! Visit www.lifeatcrossroads.org/resurrectionsongs


See you this weekend!

Preparing For Worship: April 17th, 2011

Hey Guys! I'm stoked to be back with you this weekend; I hope you're excited to gather as well. I think the video blog tells you all the important info you need to know...except...

THE SONGS!!

Check them out:

1) This God He Is Our God
2) Blessed Be Your Name
3) You Alone Can Rescue (this is a NEW song, so be sure to watch!)
4) You Never Let Go
5) By This We Know Love

Preparing For Worship: April 10th, 2011

Hey everyone! I'll miss worshiping with you this Sunday; please think of us and pray for us as we get away with our college/young adult group to Big Bear for the weekend. We always hear it said that "the children are the future of the church" but our young adults are the ones that are trying to make that transition amidst all kinds of oppression from the world and from our sinful nature. This age group is where many kids raised in the church walk away from their faith, so pray that God builds a strong community of faith and support within our young adults!

Here's the set of worship songs that Jon Meenk will be leading with the Crossroads band. Don't forget to warm up! (CLICK HERE if you want to watch and entertaining and informative warm up video)

1) Our God
2) How Great is Our God
3) From The Inside Out
4) Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)
5) The Stand